Maintain and contribute to open-source projects like Prometheus, Mimir, and OpenTelemetry, to drive improvements in Grafana Cloud Metrics
Take an active role in influencing our roadmap and your own career objectives
Work with your team to deliver new features, then use the results to iterate and improve
Drive projects from initial idea all the way to operations once it is in the hands of customers
Design, build, operate, and maintain critical systems, owning the reliability, performance, and availability
Be a part of your team’s follow-the-sun on-call rotations and take ownership of the services you’re running
Support other team members, participate in design discussions and collaborate with the team
Learn new skills by gaining a deeper understanding of our cloud product and our customers and getting to know the codebase of a large distributed system
Sometimes meet with customers to discuss new features or support cases
As we are remote-first and our engineering organization is largely remote, we provide guidance and meet regularly using video calls, so an independent attitude and good communication skills are a must.

What are we looking for in you

You are a motivated self-starter with a bias towards action.
You are community focused.
You have a passion for observability and creating intuitive products that fit customers’ needs
Pragmatism: You are able to take on complex challenges and break them down to achieve short feedback loops: to analyze, design, and build modular solutions, deliver MVPs, gather data and feedback and then progress iteratively
Collaboration and communication: The smallest unit we have is a squad. You’ll be working with your teammates in a fully remote setup. Your impact on the observability landscape will be noticeable. Good communication skills are a must.
Solid experience with at least one programming language. We use Go, but if you have familiarity with Python, C, C++, Rust or similar then that translates well
Some experience with delivering open-source projects from gathering requirements, brainstorming ideas all the way to shipping a product to the user’s hands in a self-driven way
Some experience with developing software that runs in the Cloud or some experience with systems engineering
Some experience with being on-call and following the DevOps model
Experience writing clean, robust, and performant software that is easily maintained by others
Familiarity with observability systems, know when to use metrics, logs, traces, to debug a problem.

Nice to haves

Experience working with Prometheus
Been a user of Grafana and Prometheus in operational roles (including on-call for your team at a previous employer or just using these tools on hobby/homelab projects)
Exposure to microservices architecture and distributed systems, or a desire to learn
Familiarity with the concept of infrastructure as code

Staff Backend Engineer

100000GBP - 125000GBP

New York, United States

Prometheus

Grafana

MVPs

Python

Rust

13 hours ago